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Originally Posted by Matthew Shea  Bingo!
It's more likely that, as humans figured out how to hunt and cultivate food more reliably, they had more time to spend on other, more intellectual pursuits. That, in turn, would certainly result in smarter people.
If I was into a raw-vegan diet, I'd certainly overlook this as exceedingly biased.  |
Actually, cultivating crops took a lot more time than hunting and gathering did and it was actually a pretty bad idea for our ancestors to make the switch (although I'm certainly glad they did). However, crop cultivation allowed larger settlements, which eventually meant that certain people within society could focus on things other than growing food, like rudimentary government, invention, and various trades, which led to more trade, economic systems, you get the idea...
An excellent book on this subject is Jared Diamonds 'Guns, Germs, and Steel'